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Thursday, September 15, 2011

I had to take a couple continuing education classes this summer to keep up my teaching license. I got to meet a really neat lady named Kara, who happened to be in both of my classes. During the first week, we were all assigned a day to bring in a snack and she brought in this most amazing coffee cake. She told a story of how her nephews band wrote a song about this coffee cake. It really is that good.
A couple of weeks ago, I convinced my mom that we needed to have this when we all came to visit. It's super easy to make, and tastes just a good as I remember. One lesson I learned from making it at home though...the glaze is really supposed to be a glaze that gets soaked into the cake (Kara's recipe called for a 9x13 pan and we used a bundt pan). We changed it a bit and made a thicker icing by adding more powdered sugar. Our icing almost overpowered the coffee cake. If you like it that way go ahead, but I think next time around I'll stick to Kara's original...which is what is posted below.